tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-125467502018-08-28T04:55:46.962-04:00On Racism and RepublicansThe history of racism in this country -- who is responsible for it and who is responsible for fighting it.Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-18073797703388319792010-12-06T23:37:00.001-05:002008-12-19T09:07:37.038-05:00INDEX<a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/"></a><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2007_05_30_archive.html">THE HISTORY OF REPUBLICAN EVIL<br /></a><br />How Republicans have blocked the Democratic agenda since the founding of the GOP.<br /><br /><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html">DEMOCRATS HELD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT</a><br /><br />Racist quotes from prominent Democrats.<br /><br /><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2008_06_13_archive.html">WOODROW WILSON: DEMOCRATIC ICON<br /></a><br />How Woodrow Wilson brought Jim Crow to Washington.<br /><br /><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2008_06_14_archive.html">FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT: DEMOCRATIC HERO</a><br /><br />The progressive icon who refused to desegregate the government.<br /><br /><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2006_05_29_archive.html">PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S MURDEROUS RACISM<br /></a><br />The genocidal agenda of Planned Parenthood<br /><br /><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2006_05_21_archive.html">THE RACIST HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY<br /></a><br />How the Democrats are the single greatest source of racism in the country.<br /><br /><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2006_05_20_archive.html">THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BRAINWASHING</a><br /><br />How the Democrats transformed themselves into champions of civil rights.<br /><br /><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2006_05_19_archive.html">HOW IT ALL CHANGED</a><br /><br />How Democrats lured blacks into their ranks.<br /><br /><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2006_05_18_archive.html">DEMOCRATIC RACISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY<br /></a><br />The long history of racism in the Democratic Party.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2008/12/bushs-african-legacy.html">BUSH'S AFRICAN LEGACY</a></div><div><br /></div><div>No president in our history has done more for the people of Africa than George W. Bush</div>Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-67680738084959760712009-07-18T06:06:00.001-04:002009-07-18T06:08:09.608-04:00Abortion's Racist Past and PresentLone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-24693658144978379842008-12-19T09:02:00.002-05:002009-09-20T00:49:01.534-04:00Bush's African Legacy<span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:17;" ><br />No president in this country's history has done more to save lives and improve living conditions in Africa than George W. Bush. Why haven't you heard of it? The last thing the media and the left (I'm repeating myself) want to do is give Mr. Bush ANY credit for his accomplishments.<br /><br />C</span><span><span>onsider <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelSteele/2008/03/28/bushs_africa_legacy?page=full&amp;comments=true">this article</a> by Michael Steele.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:17;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:17;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:arial;font-size:16;" ><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">President Bush showed the world that it isn't words, but actions, that truly make a difference. Millions throughout Africa would agree.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">Mr. Bush recently completed a historic visit to the African continent; a trip he described as "the most exciting, exhilarating, uplifting trip" of his presidency. During his visit, we saw pictures of the president dancing, celebrating and attending ceremonies with heads of state. But the real story is not about just this one trip; it is about the commitment the president made to Africa and what the United States has been quietly accomplishing throughout the continent over the past eight years under Mr. Bush's leadership.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">While critics here at home, including many in the press, focused on attacking Mr. Bush at every turn, he steadfastly pushed for greater investments to help the families and businesses of Africa. It's the great untold story that has rarely made headlines here in America, but even so, it has truly changed the world for millions of Africans.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">As Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete noted, for the people of his country and others across the African continent, Mr. Bush's "legacy will be that of saving hundreds of thousands of mothers' and children's lives from malaria, preventing new HIV infections and giving hope to those infected through care and treatment, and helping millions of young men and women get education." Perhaps most importantly, he adds, Mr. Bush leaves "the legacy of assisting African nations and people [in building] capacity for their own growth and development." Over the last seven years, the U.S. has committed $1.6 billion to trade capacity-building assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, Mr. Bush launched the Millennium Challenge Account as a new model to support governments that commit to ruling justly, investing in people and encouraging economic freedom. In May 2007, he announced the Africa Financial Sector Initiative, which will create seven new investment funds that will mobilize more than $1.6 billion through support of OPIC.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">In the area of improving health care in Africa, the president's actions are already producing measurable results: nearly 1.5 million people are receiving life-saving antiretroviral medications, HIV infection from HIV-positive mothers has been prevented in more than 150,000 infants and 29 million children have been enrolled in schools, some for the first time in their lives. For Mr. Bush, that's just the beginning. On his recent trip, he announced plans to provide more than 5 million mosquito nets to Tanzanians, as well as a new investment to help eradicate certain tropical diseases.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">So why did he do it? As singer-songwriter Bob Geldof pointed out, "There are no votes in helping the poor of Africa, but Bush did it anyway." It clearly wasn't about winning votes or political gain. It was not about fodder for stump speeches and empty promises of hope. Instead of being about catch phrases that simply ring hollow, the president's quiet efforts in Africa have been about action, about compassion and about results.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">Mr. Bush's unheralded commitment to helping the people and nations of Africa reminds us that we are the generation who will have it within our power not only to move hearts and minds but also to raise our hands to shape the very future of families, communities and even a continent. The ability to empower others rests not in empty promises or high-minded rhetoric, but rather in real actions that not only change lives, but also change the world.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">During my trade mission to Africa as Maryland's lieutenant governor and on subsequent visits, I had the opportunity to witness firsthand how the seeds of empowerment were being planted through market reforms, health initiatives and long-term strategic planning across the African continent. I gained a new appreciation for the kind of business climate that continuing market liberalization and privatization can create, and also for the impact that U.S.-sponsored trade legislation truly offers as a mechanism of support.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">Measures such as the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and Southern Africa Customs Union Free Trade Agreement (SACU-FRA) are making Africa more attractive to American companies who are interested in doing business on the continent. These reforms and the partnerships they foster will shape the economy of both continents for generations to come.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: medium;">The time is ripe for Africa — and an African renaissance is beginning to emerge across the globe. Because of the efforts of the Bush administration, America will have an important role to play in helping to sustain that renaissance. But it will be equally important for future administrations to appreciate what Mr. Bush's leadership on Africa exemplified: The character of America is not so much revealed in what we say or the public attention we may get, but in what we do when no is watching.</p></span></span></div>Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-44463063940108448062008-06-14T04:02:00.002-04:002008-06-15T01:57:13.429-04:00Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Liberal HeroFrom the time FDR took office in 1933, he absolutely refused to desegregate the government. His predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, brought Jim Crow to Washington. Wilson instituted separate facilities -- like drinking fountains and restrooms -- for blacks. He moved black employees into their own buildings or, if that wasn't possible, had partitions set up around them. The Republican platform of June 24, 1940 called for integration of the armed forces, but for the balance of his time in office, FDR refused to order it. FDR refused to even endorse a federal anti-lynch law, saying it would cause him to lose southern votes.<br /><br />By contrast, on September 15, 1981, Reagan established the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs. On June 29th, 1982, Reagan signed a 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act -- which Democrats originally opposed.<br /><br />And, let's not forget how FDR threw 110,000 loyal Japanese-Americans into concentration camps, seized their properties and turned their property and possessions over to whites.<br /><br />On August 10, 1988, President Reagan signed Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR.<br /><br />It would seem Roosevelt had preconceived (and racist) prejudices against the Japanese:<br /><br />"Anyone who has traveled to the Far East knows that the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results. . . . The argument works both ways. I know a great many cultivated, highly educated and delightful Japanese. They have all told me that they would feel the same repugnance and objection to have thousands of Americans settle in Japan and intermarry with the Japanese as I would feel in having large numbers of Japanese coming over here and intermarry with the American population. In this question, then, of Japanese exclusion from the United States it is necessary only to advance the true reason--the undesirability of mixing the blood of the two peoples. . . . The Japanese people and the American people are both opposed to intermarriage of the two races--there can be no quarrel there." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1925<br /><br />And then, there was the appointment of former KKK lawyer, U.S. Senator Hugo Black, to the Supreme Court. Black was not qualified for the position, but FDR knew he would never oppose his socialist and unconstitutional New Deal policies. It was Black who suddenly discovered the concept of separation of church and state in the Constitution, a bogus "right" that still divides the country today.<br /><br />AND, despite all the intelligence reports, FDR absolutely refused to talk about what the Nazis were doing to European Jews. He refused to change immigration laws to provide Jews a safe haven in the United States. No mystery there. Roosevelt was raised among the New England wealthy, where Jews were "restricted" -- not allowed to go to the night clubs and other social gatherings of the anti-Semitic elite.<br /><br />Another typical Democrat icon.Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-85834630473534136752008-06-13T09:13:00.011-04:002010-01-19T06:07:38.555-05:00Woodrow Wilson: Democratic Icon<p>Woodrow Wilson is one of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">left's</span></span> many progressive <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">demi</span></span>gods. He is held up as an icon of liberalism. But, the truth is far different from the fantasy world in which Democrats live. It is bizarre that such a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">racist</span> would have fought for the League of Nations. Was he going to allow only white nations to join? It was Wilson who segregated Washington. He imposed separate drinking fountains and restrooms for blacks and whites. He sent black civil <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">servants</span> to work in their own buildings, or put up partitions around them when that was not possible. Huh, he might have invented the work cubicle. You can read more about this guy <a href="http://www.reason.com/news/show/33906.html">here</a>, or if the link has expired, below.<br /></p><p> It was Inauguration Day, and in the judgment of one later historian, "the atmosphere in the nation's capital bore ominous signs for Negroes." Washington rang with happy Rebel Yells, while bands all over town played 'Dixie.' Indeed, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who swore in the newly elected Southern president, was himself a former member of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Ku</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Klux</span></span> Klan. Meanwhile, "an unidentified associate of the new Chief Executive warned that since the South ran the nation, Negroes should expect to be treated as a servile race." Somebody had even sent the new president a possum, an act supposedly "consonant with Southern tradition." </p> <p> This is not an alternate world scenario imagining the results of a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Strom</span></span> Thurmond victory in the 1948 election; it is the real March 4, 1913, the day Woodrow Wilson of Virginia moved into the White House. The details, above and below, are drawn from the work of historian <a href="http://php.indiana.edu/%7Eljfriedm/friedman.html"></a>Lawrence J. Friedman, especially 1970's <em>The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Postbellum</span></span> South</em>. </p> <p> The extended scandal involving Sen. Trent Lott's dismal remarks in honor of Thurmond's 100<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">th</span></span> birthday, especially Lott's stated regret that Thurmond's segregationist <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Dixiecrats</span></span> failed to win the 1948 presidential campaign, have led a number of writers to examine<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel.asp"></a> the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Dixiecrats</span></span>' old platform so as to put Lott's statement in perspective. But the whole Dixiecrat enterprise has a historical perspective of its own. </p> <p> Breakaway segregationist Democrats didn't need to pluck the racist <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">dystopia</span></span> implicit in their 1948 platform from thin air, nor did they have to base their political hopes on hazy Lost Cause <a href="http://www.teacheroz.com/reconstruction.htm"></a>nostalgia and distant antebellum dreams. An openly racist Southern presidency had existed fewer than 30 years earlier: Wilson's. His White House had not only approved of the South's discriminatory practices (many of which were also widespread in the North), it implemented them in the federal government. Had Dixiecrat dreams come true, a Thurmond administration would have revived Woodrow Wilson's racial policies. </p> <p> Wilson's historical reputation is that of a far-sighted progressive. That role has been assigned to him by historians based on his battle for the League of Nations, and the opposition he faced from isolationist Republicans. Indeed, the adjective "<a href="http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v2/v2i2a3.htm">Wilsonian</a>," still in use, implies a positive if idealistic vision for the extension of justice and democratic values throughout the world. Domestically, however, Wilson was a racist retrograde, one who attempted to engineer the diminution of both justice and democracy for American blacks—who were enjoying little of either to begin with. </p> <p> Wilson's racist views were hardly a secret. His own <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn"></a>published work was peppered with Lost Cause visions of a happy antebellum South. As president of Princeton, he had turned away black applicants, regarding their desire for education to be "unwarranted." He was elected president because the 1912 campaign featured a third party, Theodore Roosevelt's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Bullmoose</span></span> Party, which drew Republican votes from incumbent William Howard Taft. Wilson won a majority of votes in only one state (Arizona) outside the South. </p> <p> What Wilson's election meant to the South was "home rule;" that is, license to pursue its racial practices without concern about interference from the federal government. That is exactly what the 1948 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Dixiecrats</span></span> wanted. But "home rule" was only the beginning. Upon taking power in Washington, Wilson and the many other Southerners he brought into his cabinet were disturbed at the way the federal government went about its own business. One legacy of post-Civil War Republican ascendancy was that Washington's large black populace had access to federal jobs, and worked with whites in largely integrated circumstances. Wilson's cabinet put an end to that, bringing <a href="http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm">Jim Crow</a> to Washington. </p> <p> Wilson allowed various officials to segregate the toilets, cafeterias, and work areas of their departments. One justification involved health: White government workers had to be protected from contagious diseases, especially venereal diseases, that racists imagined were being spread by blacks. In extreme cases, federal officials built separate structures to house black workers. Most black diplomats were replaced by whites; numerous black federal officials in the South were removed from their posts; the local Washington police force and fire department stopped hiring blacks. Wilson's own view, as he expressed it to intimates, was that federal segregation was an act of kindness. In historian Friedman's paraphrase, "Off by themselves with only a white supervisor, blacks would not be forced out of their jobs by energetic white employees." </p> <p> According to Friedman, President Wilson said as much to those appalled blacks who protested his actions. He told one protesting black delegation that "segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen." When the startled journalist William Monroe Trotter objected, Wilson essentially threw him out of the White House. "Your manner offends me," Wilson told him. Blacks all over the country complained about Wilson, but the president was unmoved. "If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me," he told <em>The New York Times</em> in 1914, "they ought to correct it." </p> <p> Wilson appears to have perceived his presidency as an opportunity to correct history, and to restore white Americans to unambiguous supremacy. That is apparently the reason he embraced the poisonous message of D.W. Griffith's 1915 film, <em>The Birth of a Nation</em>; it offered a congenial narrative. </p> <p> Griffith's notorious film portrays the overthrow of debasing black rule in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Reconstructionist</span></span> South by the rise of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Ku</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Klux</span></span> Klan. The film's black characters (most of them white actors in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">blackface</span></span>) are either servile or savages; Klan members are represented as both heroic and romantic. The movie was based primarily on <em>The Clansman</em>, a novel written by Thomas Dixon in 1905. Not only was Dixon a personal friend of Wilson's, he had been pushing for a Wilson presidency for years, and Wilson regarded himself as being in Dixon's debt. </p> <p> Wilson discharged that debt by helping Dixon and Griffith publicize their movie. He arranged for preview screenings for his cabinet, for Congress, and for the Supreme Court, and he gave Dixon and Griffith an endorsement they could exploit. "It is like writing history with lightning," Wilson said of this KKK celebration, "and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." The first half of Wilson's endorsement is still affixed to prints of the film that are screened for film students studying Griffith's advances in editing. </p> <p> Obviously, Southern hopes that Wilson could force blacks into servility were always delusional. Nevertheless, Wilson's Jim Crow presidency remained an available model for segregationists and supremacists who came later. Thurmond and his fellow <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Dixiecrats</span></span> didn't necessarily require a model of triumphalist racism, but the point is that in Wilson they had one. The Lott Affair has been treated as if its origins lie in 1948; they don't. The past isn't dead, said Mississippian <a href="http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/%7Eegjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html"></a>William Faulkner. "It's not even the past." He might have added that the past we attempt to grapple with usually isn't even the real past. </p>Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-77069591889041478302008-06-01T01:18:00.007-04:002013-08-01T21:24:49.113-04:00Democrats Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident<span class="articleCopy">Blacks "are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both of body and mind."<br /><br /></span>--Thomas Jefferson, 1787 Co-founder of the Democratic Party (along with Andrew Jackson)<i>President, 1801-09</i><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good--a positive good."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Sen. John C. Calhoun (D., S.C.), 1837<br />Vice President, 1825-32<br />His statue stands in the U.S. Capitol.</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">If blacks were given the right to vote, that would "place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored Negro in the country upon an equality with the poor white man."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Rep. Andrew Johnson, (D., Tenn.), 1844<br />President, 1865-69</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"Resolved, That the Democratic Party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1852</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">Blacks are "a subordinate and inferior class of beings who had been subjugated by the dominant race."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Chief Justice Roger Taney, </i>Dred Scott v. Sandford,<i> 1856<br />Appointed Attorney General by Andrew Jackson in 1831<br />Appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Andrew Jackson in 1833<br />Appointed to the Supreme Court by Andrew Jackson in 1836</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"Resolved, That claiming fellowship with, and desiring the co-operation of all who regard the preservation of the Union under the Constitution as the paramount issue--and repudiating all sectional parties and platforms concerning domestic slavery, which seek to embroil the States and incite to treason and armed resistance to law in the Territories; and whose avowed purposes, if consummated, must end in civil war and disunion, the American Democracy recognize and adopt the principles contained in the organic laws establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as embodying the only sound and safe solution of the 'slavery question' upon which the great national idea of the people of this whole country can repose in its determined conservatism of the Union--NON-INTERFERENCE BY CONGRESS WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA" (emphasis in original).</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1856</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"I hold that a Negro is not and never ought to be a citizen of the United States. I hold that this government was made on the white basis; made by the white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men and none others."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Sen. Stephen A. Douglas (D., Ill.), 1858<br />Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, 1860</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"Resolved, That the enactments of the State Legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1860</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and, sir, by no legislation, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Rep. Fernando Wood (D., N.Y.), 1865<br />Mayor of New York City, 1855-58, 1860-62</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"My fellow citizens, I have said that the contest before us was one for the restoration of our government; it is also one for the restoration of our race. It is to prevent the people of our race from being exiled from their homes--exiled from the government which they formed and created for themselves and for their children, and to prevent them from being driven out of the country or trodden under foot by an inferior and barbarous race."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Francis P. Blair Jr., accepting the Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1868<br />Democratic Senator from Missouri, 1869-72His statue stands in the U.S. Capitol.</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"Instead of restoring the Union, it [the Republican Party] has, so far as in its power, dissolved it, and subjected ten states, in time of profound peace, to military despotism and Negro supremacy."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1868</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"While the tendency of the white race is upward, the tendency of the colored race is downward."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Sen. Thomas Hendricks (D., Ind.), 1869<br />Democratic nominee for Vice President, 1876<br />Vice President, 1885</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"We, the delegates of the Democratic party of the United States . . . demand such modification of the treaty with the Chinese Empire, or such legislation within constitutional limitations, as shall prevent further importation or immigration of the Mongolian race."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1876</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"No more Chinese immigration, except for travel, education, and foreign commerce, and that even carefully guarded."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1880</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"American civilization demands that against the immigration or importation of Mongolians to these shores our gates be closed."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1884</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"><span class="articleCopy"></span></span><br /><span class="articleCopy"><br /></span><br /><span class="articleCopy">"It has of late become the custom of the men of the South to speak with entire candor of the settled and deliberate policy of suppressing the negro vote. They have been forced to choose between a policy of manifest injustice toward the blacks and the horrors of negro rule. They chose to disfranchise the negroes. That was manifestly the lesser of two evils. . . . The Republican Party committed a great public crime when it gave the right of suffrage to the blacks. . . . So long as the Fifteenth Amendment stands, the menace of the rule of the blacks will impend, and the safeguards against it must be maintained."</span><br /><div align="right"><span class="articleCopy"><i>--Editorial, "The Political Future of the South," New York Times, May 10, 1900)</i></span></div><span class="articleCopy"></span><br /><br /><br />"We favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law, and its application to the same classes of all Asiatic races."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1900</i></div><br /><br />"The repeal of the fifteenth amendment, one of the greatest blunders and therefore one of the greatest crimes in political history, is a consummation to be devoutly wished for."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Rep. John Sharpe Williams (D., Miss.), 1903<br />House Minority Leader, 1903-08</i></div><br /><br />"Republicanism means Negro equality, while the Democratic Party means that the white man is supreme. That is why we Southerners are all Democrats."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Sen. Ben Tillman (D., S.C.), 1906<br />Chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs, 1913-19</i></div><br /><br />"We are opposed to the admission of Asiatic immigrants who can not be amalgamated with our population, or whose presence among us would raise a race issue and involve us in diplomatic controversies with Oriental powers."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Platform of the Democratic Party, 1908</i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a nigger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America." <br /><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: right;">- Harry Truman (1911) in a letter to his future wife Bess</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br /><br />"I am opposed to the practice of having colored policemen in the District [of Columbia]. It is a source of danger by constantly engendering racial friction, and is offensive to thousands of Southern white people who make their homes here."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Sen. Hoke Smith (D., Ga.), 1912<br />Appointed Secretary of the Interior by Grover Cleveland in 1893</i></div><br /><br />"The South is serious with regard to its attitude to the Negro in politics. The South understands this subject, and its policy is unalterable and uncompromising. We desire no concessions. We seek no sops. We grasp no shadows on this subject. We take no risks. We abhor a Northern policy of catering to the Negro in politics just as we abhor a Northern policy of social equality."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Josephus Daniels, editor, Raleigh News &amp; Observer, 1912<br />Appointed Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow Wilson in 1913<br />Appointed Ambassador to Mexico by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933<br />USS Josephus Daniels named for him by the Johnson Administration in 1965</i></div><br /><br />"The Negro as a race, in all the ages of the world, has never shown sustained power of self-development. He is not endowed with the creative faculty. . . . He has never created for himself any civilization. . . . He has never had any civilization except that which has been inculcated by a superior race. And it is a lamentable fact that his civilization lasts only so long as he is in the hands of the white man who inculcates it. When left to himself he has universally gone back to the barbarism of the jungle."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Sen. James Vardaman (D., Miss.), 1914<br />Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources, 1913-19</i></div><br /><br />"This is a white man's country, and will always remain a white man's country."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Rep. James F. Byrnes (D., S.C.), 1919<br />Appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941<br />Appointed Secretary of State by Harry S. Truman in 1945</i></div><br /><br />"Slavery among the whites was an improvement over independence in Africa. The very progress that the blacks have made, when--and only when--brought into contact with the whites, ought to be a sufficient argument in support of white supremacy--it ought to be sufficient to convince even the blacks themselves."<br /><div align="right"><i>--William Jennings Bryan, 1923<br />Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, 1896, 1900 and 1908<br />Appointed Secretary of State by Woodrow Wilson in 1913<br />His statue stands in the U.S. Capitol.</i></div><br /><br />"Anyone who has traveled to the Far East knows that the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results. . . . The argument works both ways. I know a great many cultivated, highly educated and delightful Japanese. They have all told me that they would feel the same repugnance and objection to have thousands of Americans settle in Japan and intermarry with the Japanese as I would feel in having large numbers of Japanese coming over here and intermarry with the American population. In this question, then, of Japanese exclusion from the United States it is necessary only to advance the true reason--the undesirability of mixing the blood of the two peoples. . . . The Japanese people and the American people are both opposed to intermarriage of the two races--there can be no quarrel there."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1925<br />President, 1933-45</i></div><br /><br />"This passport which you have given me is a symbol to me of the passport which you have given me before. I do not feel that it would be out of place to state to you here on this occasion that I know that without the support of the members of this organization I would not have been called, even by my enemies, the 'Junior Senator from Alabama.' "<br /><div align="right"><i>--Hugo Black, accepting a life membership in the Ku Klux Klan upon his election to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Alabama, 1926<br />Appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937</i></div><br /><br />"Mr. President, the crime of lynching . . . is not of sufficient importance to justify this legislation."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Sen. Claude Pepper (D., Fla.), 1938<br />Spoken while engaged in a six-hour speech against the antilynching bill</i></div><br /><br />"I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. . . . The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Robert C. Byrd, 1946<br />Democratic Senator from West Virginia, 1959-present<br />Senate Majority Leader, 1977-80 and 1987-88<br />Senate President Pro Tempore, 1989-95, 2001-03, 2007-present<br />His portrait stands in the U.S. Capitol.</i></div><br /><br />"President Truman's civil rights program "is a farce and a sham--an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I have voted against the so-called poll tax repeal bill. . .. I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1948<br />U.S. Senator, 1949-61<br />Senate Majority Leader, 1955-61<br />President, 1963-69</i></div><br /><br />"There is no warrant for the curious notion that Christianity favors the involuntary commingling of the races in social institutions. Although He knew both Jews and Samaritans and the relations existing between them, Christ did not advocate that courts or legislative bodies should compel them to mix socially against their will."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Sen. Sam Ervin (D., N.C.), 1955<br />Chairman, Committee on Government Operations, 1971-75</i></div><br /><br />"The decline and fall of the Roman empire came after years of intermarriage with other races. Spain was toppled as a world power as a result of the amalgamation of the races. . . . Certainly history shows that nations composed of a mongrel race lose their strength and become weak, lazy and indifferent."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Herman E. Talmadge, 1955<br />Democratic Senator from Georgia, 1957-81<br />Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, 1971-81</i></div><br /><br />"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1957</i></div><br /><br />"I have never seen very many white people who felt they were being imposed upon or being subjected to any second-class citizenship if they were directed to a waiting room or to any other public facility to wait or to eat with other white people. Only the Negroes, of all the races which are in this land, publicly proclaim they are being mistreated, imposed upon, and declared second-class citizens because they must go to public facilities with members of their own race."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Sen. Richard B. Russell Jr. (D., Ga.), 1961<br />The Russell Senate Office Building is named for him.</i></div><br /><br />"I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, 1961<br />Kennedy later authorized wiretapping the phones and bugging the hotel rooms of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.</i></div><br />"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years."<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - LBJ on the 1964 Civil Rights Act<br /><br />"I'm not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods. . . . I have nothing against a community that's made up of people who are Polish or Czechoslovakian or French-Canadian or blacks who are trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Jimmy Carter, 1976<br />President, 1977-81<br />Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2002</i></div><br /><br />"The Confederate Memorial has had a special place in my life for many years. . . . There were many, many times that I found myself drawn to this deeply inspiring memorial, to contemplate the sacrifices of others, several of whom were my ancestors, whose enormous suffering and collective gallantry are to this day still misunderstood by most Americans."<br /><div align="right"><i>--James Webb, 1990<br />Now a Democratic Senator from Virginia</i></div><br /><br />"Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D., S.C.) 1993<br />Chairman, Commerce Committee, 1987-95 and 2001-03<br />Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 1984</i></div><br /><br />"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation."<br /><div align="right"><i>--Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), 2004<br /></i></div>Chairman, Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs<br />Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 2008<br /><br />"You cannot go into a Dunkin' Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent."<br /><br />"My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth largest black population in the country. My state is anything [but] a Northeastern liberal state."<br /><br />"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy."<br /><br />"There's less than 1% of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4% or 5% that is, are minorities. What is it in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with." Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., (D., Del.), 2006-07<br /><br />(Referring to Barack Obama as a) "light-skinned" African-American who lacked a "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." -- Senator Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader<br /><br />(Referring to Barack Obama in discussion with Ted Kennedy) "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."<br /><br />"The only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black. Let's just be clear." -- Former President Bill Clinton<br /><div id="TixyyLink" style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />"You know, get yourself a cowboy hat and a shotgun. If there's ever a great video, it's you standing in the middle of the New York State Thruway saying, you know, 'Read my lips -- the law of the land is this, and we're going to enforce the law.'" - New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in response to Governor David A. Paterson's request for guidance on how to deal with the sensitive issue of the sale of tax-free cigarettes on sovereign Indian lands within New York State<br /><br />Referring to Barack Obama: "“Listen he’s a nice person, he’s very articulate,” this is what’s been used against him, “but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.” -- Dan Rather </div><br /></div>Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-1114843195277152792007-05-30T02:39:00.001-04:002009-10-18T22:50:08.210-04:00The History of Republican Evil<br>The Republican Party was formed in 1854 specifically to oppose the Democrats, and for more than 150 years, they have done everything they could to block the Democrat agenda. In their abuses of power, they have even used threats and military violence to thwart the Democrat Party’s attempts to make this a progressive country. As you read the following Republican atrocities that span three centuries, imagine if you will, what a far different nation the United States would be had not the Republicans been around to block the Democrats’ efforts.<br /><br />March 20, 1854<br />Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in <a href="http://www.itinteractive.com/ripon-wi/little_white_schoolhouse.asp">Ripon, Wisconsin</a> to establish the Republican Party<br /><br />May 30, 1854<br />Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ <a href="http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm">Kansas-Nebraska Act</a>, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party<br /><br />June 16, 1854<br />Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party<br /><br />July 6, 1854<br />First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies<br /><br />February 11, 1856<br />Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html">Dred Scott</a>; later served in President Lincoln’s Cabinet<br /><br />February 22, 1856<br />First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies<br /><br />March 27, 1856<br />First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies<br /><br />May 22, 1856<br />For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator <a href="http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/CharlesSumner.htm">Charles Sumner</a> (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover<br /><br />March 6, 1857<br />Republican Supreme Court <a href="http://www.explore-biography.com/legal_figures/J/John_McLean.html">Justice John McLean</a> issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”<br /><br />June 26, 1857<br />Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is “cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks<br /><br />October 13, 1858<br />During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee<br /><br />October 25, 1858<br />U.S. Senator <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASseward.htm">William Seward</a> (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation<br /><br />June 4, 1860<br />Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, <a href="http://medicolegal.tripod.com/sumnerbarbarism.htm">The Barbarism of Slavery</a><br /><br />April 7, 1862<br />President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade<br /><br />April 16, 1862<br />President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no<br /><br />July 2, 1862<br />U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act, establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as George Washington Carver<br /><br />July 17, 1862<br />Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes <a href="http://www.civilwarhome.com/confiscationact1862.htm">Confiscation Act</a> stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”<br /><br />August 19, 1862<br />Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation<br /><br />August 25, 1862<br />President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of African-American soldiers in U.S. Army<br /><br />September 22, 1862<br />Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation<br /><br />January 1, 1863<br />Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect<br /><br />February 9, 1864<br />Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery<br /><br />June 15, 1864<br />Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War<br /><br />June 28, 1864<br />Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts<br /><br />October 29, 1864<br />African-American abolitionist <a href="http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm">Sojourner Truth</a> says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”<br /><br />January 31, 1865<br />13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition<br /><br />March 3, 1865<br />Republican Congress establishes <a href="http://www.freedmensbureau.com/">Freedmen’s Bureau</a> to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves<br /><br />April 8, 1865<br />13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition<br /><br />June 19, 1865<br />On “<a href="http://www.elecvillage.com/juneteen.htm">Juneteenth</a>,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation<br /><br />While researching Juneteenth, I found almost no mention of the troops under Union general Gordon Granger, who were sent to Galveston to ENFORCE the ban on slavery. History revisionists would have you believe that General Granger was a glorified messenger boy. But he was the Union general put in charge of Texas. When he read the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, he was also reading the riot act, and he rode ahead of enough troops to put down any resistance. The Emancipation Proclamation had gone into effect two-and-a -half years earlier and the Civil War had been over for two months. It is absolutely unbelievable that Texas slaveholders -- or Texas slaves -- would have been totally ignorant of this. I mean, Texas isn't the name of another planet. They had telegraphs and newspapers and word of mouth. They didn't need a Union general to inform them of world events. A messenger who was sent to Texas to inform people of emancipation was killed. It is thought the plantation owners wanted their slaves for one more harvest.Astoundingly, the Democrats seem to have hijacked this day as their own. What follows is a statement that was posted on a <a href="http://www.juneteenth.com/">Juneteenth Web site </a>a few years ago.<br /><br /><br /><em><blockquote><em>Washington, D.C. - Democratic National Committee (DNC)Chairman Terry McAuliffe issued the following statement in commemoration of Juneteenth."This Saturday, Democrats across America will celebrate the anniversary of Juneteenth, the country's longest-running observance of the abolition of slavery."Juneteenth is a celebration of liberty, as we remember that day in 1865 when the news of emancipation finally reached the slaves of Galveston, Texas - two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. On that day, slavery was finally eradicated from our country's shores and a new sense of hope had been achieved for the entire nation."139 years after that historic day, the Democratic Party remains committed to fighting for equality in our schools, our workplaces, and in our neighborhoods to ensure an equal opportunity for all Americans."</em></blockquote></em>Scuse me?? The Democratic Party remains committed to fighting for equality? When the did this happen? Wasn't it the Democratic Party that fought on the side of slavery? Wasn't it the Democratic Party that fought against EVERY attempt to institute equality in our schools, our workplaces and our neighborhoods, right through the 1964 Civil Rights Act? At what point in our history did the Democratic party -- the party of slavery, the party of segregation, the party of the Ku Klux Klan -- become this nation's champion of liberty?Talk about an Extreme Makeover! By the way, you won't find a statement from the head of the RNC on that site. Apparently, the Republican party had nothing to do with freeing the slaves.<br /><br />November 22, 1865<br />Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “<a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASblackcodes.htm">black codes</a>,” which institutionalized racial discrimination<br /><br />December 6, 1865<br />Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified<br /><br />February 5, 1866<br />U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves<br /><br />April 9, 1866<br />Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivil1866.htm">Civil Rights Act of 1866</a>, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law<br /><br />April 19, 1866<br />Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery<br /><br />May 10, 1866<br />U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no<br /><br />June 8, 1866<br />U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no<br /><br />July 16, 1866<br />Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman's Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights<br /><br />July 28, 1866<br />Republican Congress authorizes formation of the <a href="http://www.buffalosoldiers.net/">Buffalo Soldiers</a>, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen<br /><br /><a href="http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/06FirstImpeachmentDiscussions/FirstImpeachmentDiscussions.htm">July 30, 1866</a><br />Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150<br /><br />January 8, 1867<br />Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.<br /><br />July 19, 1867<br />Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans<br /><br />March 30, 1868<br />Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”<br /><br />May 20, 1868<br />Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – <a href="http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/185/Pickney_Pinchback_officer_and_politican">Pinckney Pinchback</a> and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors<br /><br />September 3, 1868<br />25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress<br /><br />September 12, 1868<br />Civil rights activist <a href="http://www.footstepsmagazine.com/issues/2004/09/2004-09-more.html">Tunis Campbell</a> and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress<br /><br />September 28, 1868<br />Democrats in <a href="http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1173/Massacre_in_Opelousas">Opelousas, Louisiana</a> murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor<br /><br />October 7, 1868<br />Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”<br /><br />October 22, 1868<br />While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan<br /><br />November 3, 1868<br />Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation<br /><br />December 10, 1869<br />Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office<br /><br />February 3, 1870<br />After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans regardless of race<br /><br />May 19, 1870<br />African-American <a href="http://members.aol.com/klove01/john_langston.htm">John Langston</a>, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies<br /><br />May 31, 1870<br />President U.S. Grant signs <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_enforce.html">Republicans’ Enforcement Act</a>, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights<br /><br />June 22, 1870<br />Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South<br /><br />September 6, 1870<br />Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell<br /><br />February 28, 1871<br />Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters<br /><br />March 22, 1871<br />Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm">Ku Klux Klan</a> campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina<br /><br />April 20, 1871<br />Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans<br /><br />October 10, 1871<br />Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands<br /><br />October 18, 1871<br />After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan<br /><br />November 18, 1872<br />Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”<br /><br />January 17, 1874<br />Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government<br /><br />September 14, 1874<br />Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed<br /><br />March 1, 1875<br /><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivil1875.htm">Civil Rights Act of 1875</a>, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition<br /><br />September 20, 1876<br />Former state Attorney General Robert Ingersoll (R-IL) tells veterans: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat… I am a Republican because it is the only free party that ever existed”<br /><br />January 10, 1878<br />U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans foil Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where they belong<br /><br />July 14, 1884<br />Republicans criticize Democratic Party’s nomination of racist U.S. Senator Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) for vice president; he had voted against the 13th Amendment banning slavery<br /><br />August 30, 1890<br />Republican President Benjamin Harrison signs legislation by U.S. Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT) making African-Americans eligible for land-grant colleges in the South<br /><br />June 7, 1892<br />In a FIRST for a major U.S. political party, two women – Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attend Republican National Convention in an official capacity, as alternate delegates<br /><br />February 8, 1894<br />Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote<br /><br />December 11, 1895<br />African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans<br /><br />May 18, 1896<br />Republican Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting from Supreme Court’s notorious Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” decision, declares: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens”<br /><br />December 31, 1898<br />Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools<br /><br />May 24, 1900<br />Republicans vote no in referendum for constitutional convention in Virginia, designed to create a new state constitution disenfranchising African-Americans<br /><br />January 15, 1901<br />Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans<br /><br />October 16, 1901<br />President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country<br /><br />May 29, 1902<br />Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%<br /><br />February 12, 1909<br />On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP<br /><br />June 18, 1912<br />African-American Robert Church, founder of Lincoln Leagues to register black voters in Tennessee, attends 1912 Republican National Convention as delegate; eventually serves as delegate at 8 conventions<br /><br />August 1, 1916<br />Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, former New York Governor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, endorses women’s suffrage constitutional amendment; he would become Secretary of State and Chief Justice<br /><br />May 21, 1919<br />Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no<br /><br />April 18, 1920<br />Minnesota’s FIRST-in-the-nation anti-lynching law, promoted by African-American Republican Nellie Francis, signed by Republican Gov. Jacob Preus<br /><br />August 18, 1920<br />Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures<br /><br />January 26, 1922<br />House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster<br /><br />June 2, 1924<br />Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans<br /><br />October 3, 1924<br />Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention<br /><br />December 8, 1924<br />Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in favor of “separate but equal”<br /><br />June 12, 1929<br />First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country<br /><br />August 17, 1937<br />Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation<br /><br />June 24, 1940<br />Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it<br /><br />October 20, 1942<br />60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto, calling on southern Democrats to abolish their all-white primaries<br /><br />April 3, 1944<br />U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas Democratic Party’s “whites only” primary election system<br /><br />August 8, 1945<br />Republicans condemn Harry Truman's surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that "[t]he use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."<br /><br /><br />February 18, 1946<br />Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools<br /><br />July 11, 1952<br />Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity” of Democrats in racial matters<br /><br />September 30, 1953<br />Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education<br /><br />December 8, 1953<br />Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education<br /><br />May 17, 1954<br />Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA) and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of Supreme Court for school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education<br /><br />November 25, 1955<br />Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel<br /><br />March 12, 1956<br />Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation<br /><br />June 5, 1956<br />Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law<br /><br />October 19, 1956<br />On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”<br /><br />November 6, 1956<br />African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President<br /><br />September 9, 1957<br />President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act<br /><br />September 24, 1957<br />Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Faubus">Orval Faubus</a> to integrate public schools<br /><br />June 23, 1958<br />President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights<br /><br />February 4, 1959<br />President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many Democrats<br /><br />May 6, 1960<br />President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats<br /><br />July 27, 1960<br />At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in platform<br /><br />May 2, 1963<br />Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights<br /><br />June 1, 1963<br />Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate University of Alabama<br /><br />September 29, 1963<br />Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School<br /><br />June 9, 1964<br />Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate<br /><br />June 10, 1964<br />Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality<br /><br />The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.<br /><br />June 20, 1964<br />The Chicago Defender, renowned African-American newspaper, praises Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) for leading passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act<br /><br />March 7, 1965<br />Police under the command of Democrat Governor George Wallace attack African-Americans demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, AL<br /><br />March 21, 1965<br />Republican federal judge Frank Johnson authorizes Martin Luther King’s protest march from Selma to Montgomery, overruling Democrat Governor George Wallace<br /><br />August 4, 1965<br />Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose<br /><br />August 6, 1965<br />Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor<br /><br />July 8, 1970<br />In special message to Congress, President Richard Nixon calls for reversal of policy of forced termination of Native American rights and benefits<br /><br />September 17, 1971<br />Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator <a href="http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/ideas/portfolio/vandersee/vandersee.html">Hugo Black</a> (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he had defended Klansmen for racial murders<br /><br />February 19, 1976<br />President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII<br /><br />September 15, 1981<br />President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs<br /><br />June 29, 1982<br />President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act<br /><br />August 10, 1988<br />President Ronald Reagan signs <a href="http://www.children-of-the-camps.org/history/civilact.html">Civil Liberties Act of 1988</a>, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR<br /><br />November 21, 1991<br />President George H. W. Bush signs <a href="http://www.legalarchiver.org/civil.htm">Civil Rights Act of 1991</a> to strengthen federal civil rights legislation<br /><br />August 20, 1996<br />Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes law<br /><br />April 26, 1999<br />Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) awarding Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is transmitted to President<br /><br />January 25, 2001<br />U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee declares school choice to be “Educational Emancipation”<br /><br />March 19, 2003<br />Republican U.S. Representatives of Hispanic and Portuguese descent form Congressional Hispanic Conference<br /><br />May 23, 2003<br />U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduces bill to establish National Museum of African American History and Culture<br /><br />February 26, 2004<br />Hispanic Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-TX) condemns racist comments by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL); she had called Asst. Secretary of State Roger Noriega and several Hispanic Congressmen “a bunch of white men...you all look alike to me”<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />There you have it. What a different country this would be, had not Republicans blocked the agenda of Democrats every step of the way. But this evil organization is far from through. Now, they want to give education vouchers to public school children, so kids of every race and class can attend private schools of their CHOICE. Where will we get our garbage collectors, dishwashers and ditch diggers if blacks, Hispanics and white trash have access to a good education? They are trying to stop undocumented immigration, meaning the cheapest labor Democrats have had since the days of slavery will be taken away. <span style="font-weight: bold;">They are trying to end segregation and slavery all over again!</span><br /><br />And in true Republican tradition, they just can't stop poking their nose into other people's business, trying to destroy a woman's right to choose. They are trying to crush the secret vision of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who once said, ""We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…"<br /><br />Is there <span style="font-weight: bold;">NO</span> end to the freedoms these fascists will try to destroy?! No matter how many lies must be told, no matter how many schoolchildren must be mis-educated, no matter how many elections must be rigged, <span style="font-weight: bold;">THE REPUBLICANS MUST BE STOPPED!</span><br /><strong></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Information taken from the <a href="http://www.carnellknowledge.com/pdfs/2005_calendarSM.pdf">2005 Republican Freedom Calendar</a> by <a href="http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/">Michael Zak</a><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span>Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-1148239035854030522006-05-21T15:15:00.000-04:002006-09-23T21:46:58.233-04:00The Racist History of the Democratic Party<em>The following editorial was written a few years ago by </em><a href="http://wayneperryman.com/"><em>Wayne Perryman</em></a><em>, an inner city minister in Seattle and the author of Unfounded Loyalty. This is the man who brought a <a href="http://www.wayneperryman.com/wp/?page_id=17">reparations lawsuit</a> against the Democratic Party. What, you didn't hear about that in the media? Imagine that!<br /></em><br />Most people are either a Democrat by design, or a Democrat by deception. That is either they were well aware of the racist history of the Democratic Party and still chose to be Democrat, or they were deceived into thinking that the Democratic Party is a party that sincerely cares about Black people.<br /><br />History reveals that every piece of racist legislation that was ever passed and every racist terrorist attack that was ever inflicted on African Americans, was initiated by members of the Democratic Party. From the formation of the Democratic Party in 1792 to the Civil Rights movement of 1960's, Congressional records show the Democrat Party passed no specific laws to help Blacks, every law that they introduced into Congress was designed to hurt blacks. The chronicles of history shows that during the past 160 years the Democratic Party legislated Jim Crow laws, Black Codes and a multitude of other laws at the state and federal level to deny African Americans their rights as citizens.<br /><br />History reveals that the Republican Party was formed in 1854 to abolish slavery and challenge other racist legislative acts initiated by the Democratic Party.<br /><br />Some called it the Civil War, others called it the War Between the States, but to the African Americans at that time, it was the War Between the Democrats and the Republicans over slavery. The Democrats gave their lives to expand it, Republican gave their lives to ban it.<br /><br />During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities. Senate debates revealed that the Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.<br /><br />History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and communities occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood, Florida, the Greenwood District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington, North Carolina to name a few.<br /><br />After the Civil War, Democrats murdered several hundred black elected officials (in the South) to regain control of the southern government.<br /><br />History reveals that it was Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican that introduced legislation to give African Americans the so-called 40 acres and a mule and Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the bill. Today many white Democrats are opposed to paying African Americans trillions of dollars in Reparation Pay, money that should be paid by the Democratic Party.<br /><br />History reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of the traditional Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them closed. Many of our traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.<br /><br />Congressional records show it was Democrats that strongly opposed the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. These three Amendments were introduced by Republicans to abolish slavery, give citizenship to all African Americans born in the United States and, give Blacks the right to vote.<br /><br />Congressional records show that Democrats were opposed to passing the following laws that were introduced by Republicans to achieve civil rights for African Americans:<br /><br />Civil Rights Act 1866<br />Reconstruction Act of 1867<br />Freedman Bureau Extension Act of 1866<br />Enforcement Act of 1870<br />Force Act of 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871<br />Civil Rights Act of 1875<br />Civil Rights Act of 1957<br />Civil Rights Act of 1960<br /><br />And during the 60's many Democrats fought hard to defeat the<br /><br />1964 Civil Rights Act<br />1965 Voting Rights Acts<br />1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act<br /><br />Court records show that it was the Democrats that supported the Dred Scott Decision. The decision classified Blacks as property rather than people. It was also the racist Jim Crow practices initiated by Democrats that brought about the two landmark cases of Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v. The Board of Education.<br /><br />At the turn of the century (1900), Southern Democrats continued to oppress African Americans by placing thousands in hard-core prison labor camps. According to most historians, the prison camps were far worse than slavery. The prisoners were required to work from 10-14 hours a day, six to seven days a week in temperatures that exceeded 100 degrees and in temperatures that fell well below zero. The camps provided free labor for building railroads, mining coal-mines and for draining snake and alligator invested swamps and rivers. Blacks were transported from one project to another in rolling cages similar to the ones used to transfer circus animals. One fourth of the prison populations were children ages 6 to 18. Young Cy Williams age 12, was sentenced to 20 years for stealing a horse that he was too small to ride. Eight-year old Will Evans was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor for taking some change from a store counter and six-year old Mary Gay was sentenced to 30 days for taking a hat. While authorities sent whites to jail for the same offenses, they sent blacks to the prison camps with much longer sentences. Thousands died from malaria, frost bites, heat strokes, shackle poisoning, others were buried alive in collapsing mines, or blown to pieces in tunnel explosions, and still others drowned in swamps or were beaten and shot to death. Every southern black citizen was a potential prisoner for any alleged small offense, including violating evening curfews. Through the prison camp system, southern owners of railroads, mines and farms had an unlimited source of free labor. The black prisoners played a major role the South's economic development. Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, said, in his opinion, "the prison camps were a new form of slavery, but far more inhumane."<br /><br />History reveals that it was three white persons that opposed the Democrat's racist practices who started the NAACP.<br /><br />Dr. Martin Luther King, several Civil Rights leaders and many historians reported that during the first two years of his administration, President John F. Kennedy ignored Dr. King's request for Civil Rights. The chronicles of history reveal that it was only after television coverage of riots and several demonstrations did President Kennedy feel a need to introduce the 1963 Civil Rights Act. At that time, experts believe the nation was headed toward a major race war.<br /><br />History reveals that it was Democratic Attorney General, Robert Kennedy that approved the secret wire taps on Dr, Martin Luther King Jr., and it was Democratic President Lyndon Johnson that referred to Dr. King as " that nigger preacher." Senator Byrd referred to Dr. King as a "trouble maker" who causes trouble and then runs like a "coward," when trouble breaks out.<br /><br />Over the strong objections of racist Republican Senator Jessie Helms, Republican President Ronald Reagan, signed into law, a bill to make Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. Several Republican Senators convinced President Reagan this was the right thing to do.<br /><br />Congressional records show after signing the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act and issuing Executive Order 11478, Richard Nixon, a Republican, that started what we know as Affirmative Action.<br /><br />On December 15, 1994, federal Judge David V. Kenyon issued a court order to the Clinton Administration in the Case of Fairchild v Robert Reich Secretary of Labor (#CV92-5765 Kn). The order demanded that Secretary Reich and the Clinton Administration force 100 west coast shipping companies to develop an Affirmative Action plan to stop discrimination against, African Americans, Hispanics, females and disabled workers. Female employees were being sexually harassed, Hispanics were being denied promotions and training, disabled workers were being laid off, and African Americans were being forced to work in an environment where they had job classifications called " Nigger Jobs." Clinton left office six years later and never complied with the court order. The companies still do not have an Affirmative Action Plan.<br /><br />President Clinton sent 20, 000 troops to protect the white citizens of Europe's Bosnia, but sent no troops to Africa's Rwanda to protect the black citizens there. Consequently over 800,000 Africans were massacred.<br /><br />During the 2003 Democratic Primary debates, the Rev. Al Sharpton, said the Democrats take the black vote for granted and treat African Americans like a mistress. They [Democrats} will take us to the dance, but they don't want to take us home to meet mama."<br /><br />On December 3, 2002, President Clinton spoke to the Democratic Leadership Council in New York regarding the future of the Democratic Party and how they could retake the White House. At no time did he address Civil Rights issues for blacks or doing things to improve the conditions of African Americans. His only reference to Civil Rights was Civil Rights for Gays. His only reference to improving communities was his recommendation to revisit the Marshall Plan to re-build communities in other countries. His entire speech was aired on C-Span.<br /><br />After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the average African American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African Americans face today. Congressional records show that all previous legislation (since 1964) had strong bi-partisan support, even though some Democrats debated and voted against these laws.<br /><br />After reviewing all of the evidence, many believe America would have never experienced racism to the degree that it has, had not the Democrats promoted it through:<br /><br />Racist Legislation<br />Terrorist Organizations<br />Negative Media Communications<br />Bias Education<br />Relentless Intimidation<br />And Flawed Adjudication.<br /><br />The racism established and promoted by members of the Democratic Party affected and infected the entire nation from 1856 with the Dred Scott decision, to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case. But they never offered or issued an apology.<br /><br />Today, both parties must remember their past. The Democrats must remember the terrible things they did to Blacks and apologize and the Republicans must remember the terrific things they did for Blacks and re-commit to complete the work that their predecessors started and died for.Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-1148392698515040802006-05-20T09:42:00.001-04:002010-01-04T00:07:07.652-05:00The Effectiveness of BrainwashingThe following article is just bizarre.<br /><br /><em></em><blockquote><p><em><em>By DARRYL FEARS</em><br /><em>The Washington Post</em><br /><em>January 26. 2005 </em><br /><em>8:00AM</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>More than 20 years after the AIDS epidemic arrived in the United States, a significant proportion of African-Americans embrace the theory that government scientists created the disease to control or wipe out their communities, according to a study released yesterday by Rand Corp. and Oregon State University.</em><br /><br /><em>That belief markedly hurts efforts to prevent the spread of the disease among black Americans, the study's authors and activists said. African-Americans represent 13 percent of the U.S. population, according to Census Bureau figures, yet they account for 50 percent of new HIV infections in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</em><br /><br /><em>Nearly half of the 500 African-Americans surveyed said that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is man-made. </em><br /></em></p></blockquote><p><br />How do you fight something like this? The most effective tool the left has -- not only in this country, but all over the world -- is their ability to effectively brainwash people. In North Korea, every home and business has a speaker installed that pumps out propaganda all day. As such, the average North Korean really does believe that Americans are poised to invade and kill or enslave every one of them. The average North Korean worships Kim Jong Mentally-Il as a god.</p><p>The old Soviet Union effectively brainwashed American liberals to believe that "Uncle Joe" Stalin was a benevolent dictator (liberals' favorite form of government) and they regarded talk of millions of people being slaughtered and starved to death as vicious character assassination. Meanwhile, Lenin cynically referred to blind defenders and apologists for the Soviet Union in the Western democracies as "useful idiots."</p><p>Which brings us to the unbelievable article above. The ultimate goal of brainwashing is to get the victim to not only believe what he is being told, but to participate in his own victimization. If the above research is true, half of the population of African-Americans in this country believe the government is plotting to either control their population or destroy them. They're almost right. There is a <a href="http://importantstuffornot.blogspot.com/2005/01/black-lemmings-white-killers.html">plot to control their population</a>, but it isn't the government that's behind it.<br /><br />Somehow, there has been a sea change in this country that has blacks believing Republicans are racists and Democrats are their champions.<br /><br />Let's just take a look at the record of these champions of civil rights.<br /><br />The reason the Republican party was formed is that the Democrats in Congress were going to vote to legalize slavery in the American territories. Anti-slave forces in Congress believed (and rightly so) that if the Democrats could legalize slavery in the territories with just a vote, they could do the same in the free states. So the Republican party was formed to fight them. From its inception, the Republican party was all about equal rights. The Civil War erupted in 1861 and lasted four grueling years. During the war, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves. The Republicans of their day worked to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlawed slavery, the Fourteenth, which guaranteed equal protection under the laws, and the Fifteenth, which helped secure voting rights for African-Americans.<br /><br />The Republican Party also played a leading role in securing women the right to vote. In 1896, Republicans were the first major party to favor women's suffrage. When the 19th Amendment finally was added to the Constitution, 26 of 36 state legislatures that had voted to ratify it were under Republican control. The first woman elected to Congress was a Republican, Jeanette Rankin from Montana in 1917.<br /><br />Republicans passed the first civil rights act in 1866 over the veto of Democrat President Andrew Johnson. The act declared African Americans full citizenship and granted them full protection under the law. Segregation was forbidden, but Southern Democrats continued to practice it.<br /><br />In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified, granting equal protection of the law to all citizens. Later, Democrat Presidents including FDR did little to enforce the laws on the books.<br /><br />Despite being elected four times, FDR didn't lift a finger to desegregate the military and other government agencies.<br /><br />In 1957, Republican President Eisenhower pushed through the first modern civil rights act. Vice President Nixon played a key role. He met with then little known Martin Luther King Jr. Democrat Strom Thurmond filibustered the act for over 24 hours – a record. Senator John F. Kennedy voted against it. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson watered it down. Lyndon Johnson also once voted against a national lynch law.<br /><br />In 1960, Eisenhower pushed another civil rights act. Democrats successfully kept enforcement measures out of it, giving the law no teeth. In their 1960 platform, the Democrats finally pledged to honor civil rights laws. When you think about it, that means they hadn't been obeying civil rights legislation all the way back to the 13th Amendment.<br /><br />The civil rights act of 1964 passed, but only with the help of Republicans, who voted for it in greater percentages than Democrats.<br /><br />Today, blacks react with revulsion to the sight of a confederate flag, pointing out that the symbolism is as great to them as the swastika is to Jews. They want the flag banned just as Germany banned the Nazi swastika. There is a problem with that. Germany not only banned the Nazi flag, they banned the Nazi party. Our pro-slavery party is still alive and kicking and is still creating as much racial havoc as they always did. No Republican ever marched under that flag, but you wouldn't know it talking to some of the brainwashed citizens of this nation. They overwhelmingly support the political party that enslaved their ancestors.<br /><br />We don't ban political parties in this country -- no matter how evil they are.<br /></p>Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-1148396266747190762006-05-19T10:28:00.000-04:002006-05-23T10:57:46.843-04:00How it All ChangedThe founder of Negro History Week, which evolved into Black History Month, would be sickened to see what has been done to his legacy.<br /><br />Republican Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week between the birthdays of Republican President Abraham Lincoln and Republican activist Frederick Douglass. Mr. Woodson believed that blacks should know their past in order to participate intelligently in the affairs in our country. He strongly believed that black history - which others have tried so diligently to erase - is a firm foundation for young black Americans to build on in order to become productive citizens of our society. His message was that blacks should be proud of their heritage and that other Americans should also understand it. His father, a former slave, insisted that "learning to accept insult, to compromise on principle, to mislead your fellow man, or to betray your people, is to lose your soul."<br /><br />What a soulless bunch of people currently hold the self-anointed title of Black Leader. They do nothing BUT mislead their fellow men and betray their people. Instead of teaching the positive contributions of blacks in this country, they teach victimization and dependence. They have done more to retard the advancement of blacks in this country than Democratic slave holders ever did.<br /><br />So, what happened? Why did black voters, who mostly voted Republican, suddenly switch their allegiance from the party that freed them to the party that enslaved them? If you ask the average Democrat, he'll mumble vaguely about a sea change in which the two parties magically switched sides, the Republicans suddenly becoming racist and the Democrats suddenly becoming the champions of civil rights in this country. If you press them on this irrational piece of <a href="http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/truthiness_voted_2005_word_of_the_year/">truthiness</a>, they'll either change the subject or walk out of the room.<br /><br />Here's the truth.<br /><br />The Democrats at their 1960 election convention promised to comply with the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960. If you think about it, this was an admission that they had not been complying with the law, from the 1960 Civil Rights Act all the way back to the 13th Amendment.<br /><br />Martin Luther King, Jr. refrained from endorsing Kennedy or Nixon. However, his father openly endorsed Richard Nixon for President. Then, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested on October 19th in Atlanta, Georgia while leading a peaceful sit-in. He was immediately convicted and sentenced.<br /><br />Kennedy quickly called the Kings to express his concern. In a cosmic coincidence, Martin Luther King, Sr. switched his endorsement to Kennedy and then Bobby Kennedy phoned a judge to get King Jr. released. The Democratic Party then flooded black voters with political propaganda (from the pulpits of black churches) during the last week of the campaign. Conveniently, the Democrats left out their previous 100 years of bloody history.<br /><br />With the help of old Joe Kennedy's mob friends in Chicago, who delivered the dead vote, Kennedy narrowly won the 1960 election. He certainly had needed the senior King's endorsement, because he never would have made it based on his own civil rights record, which included voting against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.<br /><br />Despite all the Democrats' promises to black voters, Kennedy's administration accomplished absolutely nothing legislatively on civil rights issues right up until his assassination. Blacks were being betrayed until their systematic and visible repression by Democrats moved Kennedy to action out of political expediency. The April, 1963 riots in Birmingham, Alabama caused Kennedy to fear that blacks would bolt back to the Republican Party in the 1964 elections unless the Democrats finally took action, and he was dragged kicking and screaming into the civil rights fray.<br /><br />Americans were watching the repression and murder of black Americans (and whites who supported them) on television and were enraged by it. What used to occur out of the light of public consciousness was suddenly exposed, and no one could ignore it, least of all the Kennedy clan.<br /><br />Through political expediency, the Kennedy administration was forced to send in federal agents to quell the brutality. After Kennedy's assassination, LBJ -- who once voted against a national anti-lynching law -- was forced to continue enforcement of civil rights laws against members of his own party.<br /><br />Thus was born the "new" Democratic party, champions of the underdog, defenders of the defenseless, yada, yada, yada.<br /><br />Johnson then proceeded to create his "Great Society," which did more to rip apart black families than slavery ever did.<br /><br />And today, the Democratic Party continues to hold the black vote despite their opposition to school choice, which would give every child equal access to a good eduction, despite their promotion of abortion, which destroys black babies at a rate higher than any other race, despite their broken promises, despite their open racism against any blacks who choose to be Republicans.<br /><br />Self-appointed black leaders have lost their soul. People like Al Sharpton, Charles Rangle, Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, etc. routinely compromise on principle, mislead their fellow man and betray their people in order to increase their personal wealth.<br /><br />How do we turn things around? Get rid of Democrats. Get them out of the public school system, where they infect black children with the hopelessness of victim-hood. Get them out of public office, where they continue to pass policies that make it nearly impossible for the little guy to succeed. Get them out of the mainstream of our culture, where they continue to drag us into the gutter.<br /><br />Imagine how vastly different our history would have been had the Democratic Party been dismantled after the Civil War, just as the Nazi Party was destroyed after WWII.Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546750.post-1148487753396126452006-05-18T11:14:00.001-04:002008-04-28T04:13:27.616-04:00Democratic Racism in the 20th CenturyIt would appear that I'm not the only one who believes the Democratic Party is now -- and always has been -- the major source of <a href="http://members.tripod.com/%7EGOPcapitalist/democratrecord.html">racism</a> in this country. Considering the way links have of expiring, the full text is below.<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong>The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry and Racism</strong></div><br />A common attack upon conservatives and Republicans by the left is to engage in what has come to be known as "playing the race card" but is more accurately described as racial McCarthyism. Hardly a day goes by without a member of the far left wing falsely accusing conservatives of racism, bigotry, and a wide array of similar nasty things. They are not only dishonest, but they often border on the absurd, as in NAACP leader and hyper bigot Julian Bond's recent implication to his organization that Bush administration officials supported confederate slavery. Amazingly, Bond's statements went without condemnation from the radical Democrat party or others in his organization.<br /><br />Not surprisingly, in all the lies and accusations of racism by the radical left wing, the truth becomes distorted not only about the Republicans but also the Democrats who make these accusations themselves. For instance, you may or may not have heard Democrat Senator Robert Byrd's outburst of racist bigoted slurs, more specifically the "n-word," on national television in March of 2001. Amazingly, this incident of blatant racism on national television drew barely a peep from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, Mary Frances Berry, or any of the other ambulance chasers who purport themselves to be the leaders of the civil rights movement. In contrast, the main source of well deserved criticism for Byrd's racist outburst came not from any of the so called leaders of the civil rights movement but from from Republican Majority Leader Dick <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Armey</span>. The race hustlers Jackson, Mfume <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">et</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">al</span> turned a blind eye towards this act of racism by one of their own party, at most issuing an unpublicized slap on the wrist, or, as was more often the case, making not a peep. But where the race hustlers turn a blind eye and spew their lies, it is up to conservatives to set the record straight with the truth.<br /><br /><strong>In response to the growing practice of racial McCarthyism by prominent left wing Democrats, it is necessary to expose the truth about the Democrat Party's record on Civil Rights: </strong><br /><br /><strong>I. Acts of Bigotry by Prominent Democrats and Leftists: </strong><br /><br /><strong>Franklin Delano Roosevelt:</strong> Franklin Roosevelt, the long time hero and standard bearer of the Democrat Party, headed up and implemented one of the most horrible racist policies of the 20<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">th</span> Century – the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. Roosevelt unilaterally and knowingly enacted Japanese Internment through the use of presidential Executive Orders 9066<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> and 9102 during the early years of the war. These orders single-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">handedly</span> led to the imprisonment of an estimated 120,000 law abiding Americans of Japanese ancestry, the overwhelming majority of them natural born second and third generation American citizens. Countless innocents lost their property, fortunes, and, in the case of an unfortunate few, even their lives as a result of Roosevelt's internment camps, camps that have been accurately described as America's concentration camps. Perhaps most telling about the racist nature of Roosevelt's order was his clearly expressed intention to apply it almost entirely to Japanese Americans, even though America was also at war with Germany and Italy. In 1943, Roosevelt wrote regarding concerns of German and Italian Americans that they t0o would share in the fate of the interned Japanese Americans, noting that "no collective evacuation of German and Italian aliens is contemplated at this time." Despite this assertion, Roosevelt did exhibit his personal fears about Italian and German Americans, and in his typical racist form he used an ethnic stereotype to make his point. Expressing about his position on German and Italian Americans during World War II, Roosevelt stated “I don’t care so much about the Italians, they are a lot of opera singers, but the Germans are different. They may be dangerous.”<br /><br />Roosevelt also appointed two notorious segregationists to the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt appointed South Carolina segregationist Democrat Jimmy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Byrnes</span> to the court. Roosevelt later made <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Byrnes</span> a top advisor, where the segregationist earned the nickname “assistant president.” <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Byrnes</span> was Roosevelt’s second choice behind Harry Truman for the VP nod in his 1944 reelection bid. Roosevelt also appointed segregationist Democrat Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the court. Black was a former member of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Ku</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Klux</span> Klan with a notorious record of racism himself.<br /><br /><strong>Hugo Black:</strong> A former Democrat Senator from Alabama and liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by FDR, Hugo Black had a lengthy history of hate group activism. Black was a member of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Ku</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Klux</span> Klan in the 1920's and gained his legal fame defending <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Klansmen</span> under prosecution for racial murders. In one prominent case, Black provided legal representation to Klansman Edwin Stephenson for the hate-induced murder of a Catholic priest in Birmingham. A jury composed of several Klan members <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">acquitted</span> Stephenson of the murder, reportedly after Black expressed Klan gestures to the jury during the trial. In 1926 Black sought and won election as a Democrat to the United States Senate after campaigning heavily to Klan membership. He is said to have told one Klan audience "I desire to impress upon you as representatives of the real Anglo-Saxon sentiment that must and will control the destinies of the stars and stripes, that I want your counsel." In the Senate Black became a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">staunch</span> supporter of the liberal New Deal initiatives of FDR and a solid opponent of civil rights legislation, including a filibuster of an anti-lynching measure. Black led the push for several New Deal programs and was a key participant in FDR's court packing scandal. Roosevelt appointed Black, a loyal ally, to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the Senate confirmation of Black's nomination, the issue of his strong Klan affiliations caused a public controversy over his appointment. Following the confirmation Roosevelt claimed ignorance of Black's Klan past, though this claim was dubious at best. Black's first Senate election, which occurred with Klan support, had been covered nationally a decade earlier in 1926. Black's Klan affiliations were a well known part of his political background and received heavy coverage in the newspapers at the time of his appointment. On the court, Black became a liberal stalwart. He also continued his career of supporting racism by authoring the opinion in favor of FDR's Japanese internment program in the infamous <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/65.htm"></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Korematsu</span> ruling.</a><br /><br /><strong>Senator Robert Byrd, D-WV:</strong> Byrd is a former member of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Ku</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Klux</span> Klan and is currently the only national elected official with a history in the Klan, a well known hate group. Byrd was extremely active in the Klan and rose to the rank of “<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Kleagle</span>,” an official Klan membership recruiter. Byrd once stated that he joined the Klan because it was effective in "promoting traditional American values" (<a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20010307.shtml">Source</a>). Byrd's choice of words speak volumes about his bigotry considering the fact that the Klan is a notorious hate group, and the racist "values" it promotes are anything but American. One of the earliest criticisms of Byrd's Klan ties came in 1952 when he was running for Congress. Byrd responded by claiming that he had left the Klan in 1943 while noting that "(d)<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">uring</span> the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." Byrd was lying, however, as he engaged in correspondence with a Klan Imperial Wizard long after he claimed to have ended his ties with the hate group.<br /><br />In a letter to the Klan leadership dated 3 years after he purported to have ended his ties with them, Byrd wrote "I am a former <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Kleagle</span> of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Ku</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Klux</span> Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd continued his racist diatribe "It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union" and followed with a request for assistance from the hate group's leadership in "rebuilding the Klan in the realm" of West Virginia.<br /><br />Byrd's racism extends far beyond his Klan membership. In a letter he wrote on the subject of desegregating the armed forces, Byrd escalated his racist rhetoric to an appalling level. In the letter, Byrd vowed that he would never fight in an integrated armed services noting "(r)<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">ather</span> I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds".<br /><br />Byrd's racist opinions have shown their ugly face in his behavior in the Senate. Byrd led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, according to the United States Senate's own website, filibustered the legislation to the bitter end appearing as one of the last opponents to the act before a coalition of civil rights proponents led by Republican Minority Leader Everett <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Dirksen</span> invoked cloture so that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could pass. At the time, Byrd was in the the midst of a 14 hour and 13 minute filibuster diatribe against the key civil rights measure.<br /><br />Throughout the 1960's, Byrd was was one of the staunchest opponents to civil rights in the U.S. Senate. Byrd’s racist history drew attention recently when he went on national television and repeatedly used the n-word, one of the most vicious racial slurs in existence, in an appearance on national television. Byrd uttered the slur on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow on March 5, 2001. Despite the appalling nature of the remark, it went largely ignored by the mainstream media and the self appointed "civil rights" leadership. Whereas a similar remark by anyone other than a leading Democrat Senator would assuredly prompt the likes of Jesse Jackson to assemble protest rallies demanding resignations, the Jackson crowd was eerily quiet following Byrd's remarks, issuing only low key suggestions that Byrd should avoid making such bigoted remarks.<br /><br />In a sickening recognition of Byrd's appalling political career, the national Democrat party has done nothing but embrace the West Virginia senator with leadership roles and practically every honor imaginable. To this very day the Democrats call former Klansman turned U.S. Senator Robert Byrd the "conscience of the Senate." They have embraced him as their party's central pillar in all ways possible. Byrd has been reelected more times than any other Democrat senator, has served as a Democrat in Congress, a Democrat State Senator in West Virginia, and a Democrat State Delegate in West Virginia. Democrats have made repeatedly elected Byrd into their national party leadership and into the U.S. Senate leadership. He became secretary of the Senate Democrat Caucus in 1967, and Senate Democrat Whip in 1971. The Democrats elected former Klansman Byrd as their Senate Majority Leader from 1977-1980 and as their Senate Minority Leader from 1981-1986. Byrd was again elected Democrat Majority Leader from 1987-1988. Democrats made Byrd the chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee and President Pro <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Tempore</span> of the Senate from 1989 until the Republicans won control of the Senate in November 1994. Following the defection of Jim <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Jeffords</span> in June 2001, the Democrats again made Byrd the chairman of the Appropriations Committee and elected him to the highest ranking office in the Senate: the President Pro <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Tempore</span>, a position which also put this former Klansman 4<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">th</span> in line for the presidency. Byrd lost his position when Republicans retook the Senate in late 2002, but continues to serve as one of the highest ranking members of the Democrat Senate leadership today.<br /><br /><strong>Senator Ernest <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Hollings</span>, D-SC:</strong> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Hollings</span> was a liberal Democrat Senator from South Carolina who was also notorious for his use of racial slurs. He rose out of the Democrat Party's segregationist wing in the 1960's as governor of South Carolina. While in office as governor, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Hollings</span> personally led the opposition to lunch counter integration in his state. The New York Times reported on March 17, 1960 that then-governor <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Hollings</span> "warned today that South Carolina would not permit 'explosive' manifestations in connection with Negro demands for lunch-counter services." According to the article, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Hollings</span> gave a speech in which he "challenged President Eisenhower's contention that minorities had the right to engage in certain types of demonstrations" against segregation. In the speech <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Hollings</span> described the Republican president as "confused" and asserted that Eisenhower had done "great damage to peace and good order" by supporting the rights of minorities to protest segregation at the lunch counters.<br /><br />Governor <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Hollings</span>' support for segregation continued throughout his term and included his attendance at a July 23, 1961 meeting of segregationist Democrats to organize their opposition to the civil rights movement. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Hollings</span> was one of four governors in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">attendance</span>, all of them Democrats. The others included rabid segregationists Orval <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Faubus</span> of Arkansas and Ross Barnett of Mississippi. The New York Times reported on the meeting, noting that among the strategies discussed were using the segregationist White Citizens Council organization to mobilize political opposition to desegregation.<br /><br />In more recent years <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Hollings</span>, a senior Democrat senator, has made disparaging racial remarks and slurs against minorities. Senator <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Hollings</span>, who was a contender for his party's presidential nomination in 1984, blamed his defeat in the primaries by using a racial slur against Hispanics. After losing the Iowa Straw Poll, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">Hollings</span> stated "You had wetbacks from California that came in here for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Cranston</span>," referring to one of his opponents, Alan <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Cranston</span>. A few years later <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Hollings</span> reportedly used the slur "darkies" to derogatorily refer to blacks. He also once disparagingly referred to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition as the "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">Blackbow</span> Coalition," and called former Senator Howard <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">Metzenbaum</span>, who is Jewish, "the Senator from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">B'nai</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">B'rith</span>." <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">Hollings</span> gained international criticism for his remarks about the African Delegation to the 1993 Geneva GATT conference, where he crudely remarked "you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">Hollings</span> was also the Governor of South Carolina who raised the confederate flag over the state capitol in the early 1960's in what was considered at the time to be an act of defiance to civil rights. The press ignored <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">Hollings</span> and his role in the flag issue at the same time the political correctness police were smearing George W. Bush during his campaign after Bush correctly remarked that the flag was a state issue to be decided upon by South Carolina and not the national government.<br /><br /><strong>Jesse Jackson:</strong> Jackson was the featured prime time speaker at the 2000 Democrat Convention. Jackson has a history of using anti-Semitic slurs and derogatorily calling New York City “<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">Hymietown</span>.” Jackson, a prominent self proclaimed "civil rights leader," is himself guilty of the same bigotry he dishonestly purports to oppose.<br /><br /><strong>Dan Rather:</strong> Rather, the former television anchor for CBS, is also a liberal Democrat who has spoken at fundraisers for the Democrat party in the past. The notoriously left wing reporter appeared on the Don Imus radio show on July 19, 2001 where he was interviewed about his long term refusal to cover the Gary <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">Condit</span> (D-CA) scandal involving an affair with a missing intern despite the scandal's national prominence. Rather noted on the air that CBS had basically forced him to cover the story that was on every other network and on the front page of all the major newspapers, all this after Rather avoided it for months. Rather stated on the air, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">referring</span> to CBS, that "they got the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">Buckwheats</span>" and made him cover the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">Condit</span> scandal. The term "Buckwheat" is considered an offensive racial stereotype that stems from an easily frightened black character named "Buckwheat" on the Little Rascals comedies. It is widely regarded as a racial epithet and has long been condemned as an offensive stereotype by several civil rights organizations. In several past incidents the use of the epithet "Buckwheat" has <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">received</span> condemnation by the NAACP, Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">Sharpton</span> and other left wing organizations. These left wing organizations and personalities have demanded that other media personalities be fired over using the epithet, and even staged a protest at a school over the mere allegation that the racist stereotype had been used by a teacher. Yet these same liberal groups have, to date, remained completely silent now that one of their own, Dan Rather, is guilty of using the same offensive racial stereotype they have condemned elsewhere on a national radio show. It's just more proof of how the left wingers who cry the loudest with accusations of racism against others turn a blind eye when somebody of their own left wing ideology is the undeniable culprit of a blatantly racist act or statement!<br /><br /><strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">Cragg</span> Hines:</strong> Hines is one of the most rabidly partisan DC based Democrat editorial columnists to work for a major newspaper, and he makes no attempts to hide it. To Hines, pro-lifers are "neanderthals," as is often the case with those who differ in opinion with him. Ironically, Hines, a columnist who regularly touts himself as an enlightened progressive, is also known for racial remarks and religious intolerance. He attacked Senator Jesse Helms in an August 26, 2001 editorial with not only the usual liberal name calling, but also with a racial epithet. Hines used the racial slur "cracker" to attack Helms. He used the epithet not only within the article's text, but he even included it in the piece's title. In a sense of heavy irony, Hines' article accused Helms of bigotry for, among other things, opposing liberal policies like affirmative action. He didn't seem to object to himself for his own <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">bigoted</span> language in the same article. Hines has also drawn heavy criticism from Catholics including a letter to the editor from the former President of the U.S. Catholic Bishop's Conference for his seemingly agenda-driven criticisms of Catholicism and its religious leaders, often based on little or no historical evidence, which he has expressed in numerous editorial columns.<br /><br /><strong>Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">Sharpton</span>:</strong> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">Sharpton</span>, a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">perrenial</span> Democrat candidate, has a notorious racist past. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">Sharpton</span> was a central figure who fanned the 1991 Crown Heights race riot, where a mob shouting anti-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">Semitic</span> slurs murdered an innocent Jewish man. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">Sharpton</span> also incited a 1995 protest of a Jewish owned store in Harlem where protesters used several anti-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">Semitic</span> slurs. During the protests, a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">Sharpton</span> lieutenant called the store's owner a "bloodsucker" and declared an intent to "loot the Jews." A member of the protest mob later set fire to the store, resulting in the death of seven.<br /><br /><strong>Representative Dick <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69">Gephardt</span>, D-MO:</strong> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70">Gephardt</span>, the former Democrat Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave several speeches to a St. Louis area hate group during his early years as a representative. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gephardt spoke before the Metro South Citizens Council, a now defunct white supremacist organization, during his early years as a congressman. Newsmax further reported that Gephardt had openly asked the group for an endorsement of his candidacy during one of his many visits with the organization. Gephardt has long avoided questions about his past affiliation with this group.<br /><br /><strong>Andrew Cuomo:</strong> Cuomo, Bill Clinton's former Housing Secretary and a prominent Democrat political player in New York, was tape recorded using racially inflamatory rhetoric to build opposition to a potential Democrat primary opponent while speaking to a Democrat group. Cuomo stated that voting for his rival for the New York Democrat gubernatorial nomination Carl McCall, who is black, would create a "racial contract" between Black and Hispanic Democrats "and that can't happen." Upon initial reports, Cuomo denied the statement but later a tape recording surfaced. Cuomo later dropped out of the race for governor.<br /><br /><strong>Lee P. Brown:</strong> Brown, Bill Clinton's former drug czar and former Democrat mayor of Houston, engaged in racist campaigning designed to suppress Hispanic voter turnout during his 2001 reelection bid. Brown faced challenger Orlando Sanchez, a Hispanic Republican who drew heavy support from the Hispanic community during the general election. Two weeks prior to the runoff, Brown's campaign printed racist signs designed to intimidate Hispanic voters. The signs featured a photograph of Sanchez and the words "Anti-Hispanic." The signs drew harsh criticism from Hispanic leaders as their message was designed to intimidate and confuse Hispanic voters. Around the same time the signs were being used, Brown supporter and city councilman Carol Alvarado made a series of racially charged attacks on Sanchez, implying a desire to see the supression of Hispanic voter turnout in the runoff. Brown staffers also went on record claiming that Sanchez was not a true Hispanic. The racist anti-Hispanic undertones of Brown's reelection bid were so great that liberal Democrat city councilman John Castillo, himself Hispanic, retracted his endorsement of Brown in disgust and became a Sanchez supporter in the final week of the campaign. Following the harsh condemnation of the racist signs and tactics, Brown purported that his campaign was removing them even though many still lingered around Houston up until the election. When election day came along, Brown placed more of the racist signs at polling places, despite his claim to have stopped using them. The large campaign billboard style election day signs featured, in Spanish, the word "Danger!" on them followed by Sanchez's name with a large red circle and slash through it. The signs identified the Brown campaign as their owner on the bottom. Brown's racially charged reelection effort barely squeeked by Sanchez on election day, winning 51% to 49% following a series of racially motivated advertisements in which the Brown campaign appealed to the fear of black voters by invoking images of the gruesome lynching death of James Byrd, Jr. and by attempting to pit them against Hispanics. While Brown had the audacity to declare himself a mayor for all people and all ethnicities at his victory party, many in Houston fear the racial wounds inflicted by his campaign will take years to heal.<br /><br /><strong>Mary Frances Berry:</strong> Berry is the former Democrat chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). She purported herself to be an "independent" in her political affiliation in order to hold her job on the civil rights commission where partisan membership may not exceed 4 for either party, but wass in fact a dedicated liberal Democrat who openly supported Al Gore for president and has given a total of $20,000 in personal contributions to the Democrat Party, Al Gore for President, and other Democrat candidates over the last decade. Berry is an open racist who is affiliated with the far-left Pacifica radio network, a group with ties to black nationalist causes. Berry once stated "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them," indicating that she believes the USCCR should only look out for civil rights violations against persons of certain select skin colors.<br /><br /><strong>Billy McKinney:</strong> Former Democrat State Representative Billy McKinney of Georgia, who is also the father of former Democrat congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the same state. During his daughter's failed 2002 reelection bid, McKinney appeared on television where he blamed his daughter's difficulties on a Jewish conspiracy. McKinney unleashed a string of anti-semitic sentiments, stating "This is all about the Jews" and spelling out "J-E-W-S." McKinney lost his own seat in a runoff a few weeks later.<br /><br /><strong>The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan:</strong> Aside from the multiple Klan members who have served in elected capacity within the high ranks of the Democrat Party, the political party itself has a lengthy but often overlooked history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. Though it has been all but forgotten by the media, the Democrat National Convention of 1924 was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the "Klanbake convention" at the time, the 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was dominated by a platform dispute surrounding the Ku Klux Klan. A minority of the delegates to the convention attempted to condemn the hate group in the party's platform, but found their proposal shot down by Klan supporters within the party. As delegates inside the convention voted in the Klan's favor, the Klan itself mobilized a celebratory rally outside. On July 4, 1924 one of the largest Klan gatherings ever occurred outside the convention on a field in nearby New Jersey. The event was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform victory in the Democrat Convention, and ended in a cross burning.<br /><br /><strong>II. Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Movement: </strong><br /><br />A little known fact of history involves the heavy opposition to the civil rights movement by several prominent Democrats. Similar historical neglect is given to the important role Republicans played in supporting the civil rights movement. A calculation of 26 major civil rights votes from 1933 through the 1960's civil rights era shows that Republicans favored civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of the votes! These facts are often intentionally overlooked by the left wing Democrats for obvious reasons. In some cases, the Democrats have told flat out lies about their shameful record during the civil rights movement.<br /><br />Democrat Senators organized the record Senate filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Included among the organizers were several prominent and well known liberal Democrat standard bearers including: - Robert Byrd, current senator from West Virginia - J. William Fulbright, Arkansas senator and political mentor of Bill Clinton - Albert Gore Sr., Tennessee senator, father and political mentor of Al Gore. Gore Jr. has been known to lie about his father's opposition to the Civil Rights Act. - Sam Ervin, North Carolina senator of Watergate hearings fame - Richard Russell, famed Georgia senator and later President Pro Tempore<br />The complete list of the 21 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes Senators:<br /><br />- Hill and Sparkman of Alabama<br />- Fulbright and McClellan of Arkansas<br />- Holland and Smathers of Florida<br />- Russell and Talmadge of Georgia<br />- Ellender and Long of Louisiana<br />- Eastland and Stennis of Mississippi<br />- Ervin and Jordan of North Carolina<br />- Johnston and Thurmond of South Carolina<br />- Gore Sr. and Walters of Tennessee<br />- H. Byrd and Robertson of Virginia<br />- R. Byrd of West Virginia<br /><br />Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Act was substantial enough to literally split the party in two. A whopping 40% of the House Democrats VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED it. Republican support in the Senate was even higher. Similar trends occurred with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was supported by 82% of House Republicans and 94% of Senate Republicans. The same Democrat standard bearers took their normal racists stances, this time with Senator Fulbright leading the opposition effort.<br /><br />It took the hard work of Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Republican Whip Thomas Kuchel to pass the Civil Rights Act (Dirksen was presented a civil rights accomplishment award for the year by the head of the NAACP in recognition of his efforts). Upon breaking the Democrat filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Republican Dirksen took to the Senate floor and exclaimed "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!." Sadly, Democrats and revisionist historians have all but forgotten (and intentionally so) that it was Republican Dirksen, not the divided Democrats, who made the Civil Rights Act a reality. Dirksen also broke the Democrat filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act that was signed by Republican President Eisenhower.<br /><br />Outside of Congress, the three most notorious opponents of school integration were all Democrats:<br /><br />- Orval Faubus, Democrat Governor of Arkansas and one of Bill Clinton's political heroes<br />- George Wallace, Democrat Governor of Alabama<br />- Lester Maddox, Democrat Governor of Georgia<br /><br />The most famous of the school desegregation standoffs involved Governor Faubus. Democrat Faubus used police and state forces to block the integration of a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The standoff was settled and the school was integrated only after the intervention of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.<br /><br />Even the Democrat Party organization resisted integration and refused to allow minority participation for decades. Exclusion of minorities was the general rule of the Democrat Party of many states for decades, especially in Texas. This racist policy reached its peak under the New Deal in the southern and western states, often known as the New Deal Coalition region of FDR.<br /><br />The Supreme Court in <a href="http://www.nvri.org/about/wealth1.shtml">Nixon v. Herndon </a>declared the practice of "white primaries" unconstitutional in 1927 after states had passed laws barring Blacks from participating in Democrat primaries. But the Democrat Parties did not yield to the Court’s order. After Nixon v. Herndon, Democrats simply made rules within the party's individual executive committees to bar minorities from participating, which were struck down in <a href="http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/courtcases.cgi?state=Texas">Nixon v. Condon</a> in 1932. The Democrats, in typical racist fashion, responded by using state parties to pass rules barring blacks from participation. This decision was upheld in Grovey v. Townsend, which was not overturned until 1944 by Smith v. Allwright. The Texas Democrats responded with their usual ploys and turned to what was known as the "Jaybird system" which used private Democrat clubs to hold white-only votes on a slate of candidates, which were then transferred to the Democrat party itself and put on their primary ballot as the only choices. Terry v. Adams overturned the Jaybird system, prompting the Democrats to institute blocks of unit rule voting procedures as well as the infamous literacy tests and other Jim Crow regulations to specifically block minorities from participating in their primaries. In the end, it took 4 direct Supreme Court orders to end the Democrat's "white primary" system, and after that it took countless additional orders, several acts of Congress, and a constitutional amendment to tear down the Jim Crow codes that preserved the Democrat's white primary for decades beyond the final Supreme Court order ruling it officially unconstitutional.<br /><br />Hispanics in South Texas were treated especially poorly by the Democrat Party, which relied heavily on a system of political bosses to coerce and intimidate Hispanics into voting for Democrat primary candidates of choice. Though coercion is illegal, this system, known as the Patron system, is still in use to this day by local Democrat parties in some heavy Hispanic communities of the southwest.<br /><br />The next time Democrats take to the national airwaves to dishonestly accuse Republicans of racial hatred, remember who the historical record up until this very day points to as the real bigots: The Democrat Party. In all possible ways, the Democrat Party is built around the pillars of ultra leftists, many of whom are known participants in racism and/or affiliates of racist hate groups. Consider the Democrat Party of today's heroes and leaders:<br /><br /><strong>- Franklin Delano Roosevelt</strong>, Democrat icon and orchestrator of Japanese Internment<br /><strong>- Ex-House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt</strong>, former affiliate of a St. Louis area racist group<br /><strong>- Ex-Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Byrd</strong>, former Ku Klux Klansman known for making bigoted slurs on national television<br /><strong>- Rev. Jesse Jackson</strong>, Democrat keynote speaker and race hustler known for making anti-Semitic slurs<br /><strong>- Rev. Al Sharpten</strong>, Democrat activist and perennial candidate and race hustler known inciting anti-Semitic violence in New York City<br /><strong>- Sen. Ernest Hollings</strong>, former leading Democrat Senator known for use of racial slurs against several minority groups<br /><strong>- Lee P. Brown</strong>, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat mayor of Houston who won reelection using racial intimidation against Hispanic voters<br /><strong>- Andrew Cuomo</strong>, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat candidate for NY Governor who made racist statements about a black opponent.<br /><strong>- Dan Rather</strong>, Democrat CBS news anchor and editorialist known for using anti-black racial epithets on a national radio broadcast<br /><strong>- Donna Brazile</strong>, former Gore campaign manager known for making anti-white racial attacks. Brazile has also worked for Jackson, Gephardt, and Michael Dukakis.<br /><br />The simple truth is that the Democrat Party's history during the 20th century was one closely aligned to bigotry in a record stemming largely out of the liberal New Deal era up until the modern day. Bigots are at the center of the Democrat party's current leadership and role models. And in a striking display of hypocrisy, many of the same Democrats who dishonestly shout accusations of "bigotry" at conservatives are practicing bigots of the most disgusting and disreputable kind themselves.Lone Rangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.com